allow users to force an empty commit message

Implementation idea #1: make empty commit messages a bazaar.conf option, e.g. "allow_empty_commit_message = (true/false)".
Implementation idea #2: prompt user to continue or abort the commit if an empty commit message is supplied, along the lines of Subversion.

Sometimes I really don't have anything to say about a commit. For example, in a personal repository of documents that I commit once-in-a-while, I may have nothing to say other than "added file". But that's pointless, because bzr already indicates that. Why should I be forced to?

@Adam this is probably pretty easy to fix; if you'd like to try we will help

Haha, ok, I'm starting to dabble in Python a little. I may have some
time in a week or two. Thanks.

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 09:57, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
> @Adam this is probably pretty easy to fix; if you'd like to try we will
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Come and ask on #bzr or the mailing list if you want to talk about it.
 You don't need to write the fix alone.
Martin

What a great attitude! If only all FOSS projects were like this! :)

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:53, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
> Come and ask on #bzr or the mailing list if you want to talk about it.
>  You don't need to write the fix alone.
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This bug should be closed, as it was fixed some time down the line, ie. Bazaar now does allow empty commit messages.

>bzr commit
Committing to: X
modified X.cpp
Commit message was not edited, use anyway? ([y]es, [n]o): no
bzr: ERROR: Empty commit message specified. Please specify a commit message with either --message or --file or leave a blank message with --message "".

>bzr commit -m ""
Committing to: X
modified X.cpp
Committed revision 2.

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